'Perfect Split' meme is the new Chinese Internet craze

A new craze is sweeping through China with girls showing off their suppleness on Chinese social media. The girls post photos that show them doing the "perfect split." While girls dominate the new meme trend, men and animals have joined in the craze.

The Daily Mail reports that a college student from Shangdong triggered the meme when she uploaded to the Chinese microblogging site Weibo, a photo that showed her demonstrating a "spotless split" in her dorm room.

According to Wotshappening, the craze spread very quickly with equally limber Chinese girls flocking online to post their versions of the "perfect split."

The photos show extreme demonstrations of suppleness that explain why the Chinese excel at the Olympics in gymnastics.

Perfect split

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Perfect split

Weibo

Spotless split

Weibo

Perfect Split

Weibo

Perfect split

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The Huffington Post comments that to show viewers just how routine and casual doing the "perfect split" could be, some girls post photos showing them doing the split in the course of daily routine activities such as washing cars, eating, hanging out with friends, at the office, chatting on phone and working on a computer.